Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThat your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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